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Friday, March 25, 1977

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Many irreplacable volumes stolen

UK library books ripped off at high rate

By MARIE MITCHELL
Kernel Sta f f Writer

Frustratim is waiting until the
last minute to complete a research
taper or read a bodt, on reserve in
the library, only to find pages or
entire books missing—permanently.

Last August library workers
conducted an inventory to estimate
the library’s losses. “It was our first
jroject to compile concrete figures
to srbstantiating what we already
knew-that books were being ripped
off at a high rate,” said Ed O’Hare,
head of collection development.

0f the total 1.4 million University
book holdings, 5.6 per cent of a
random sample of 70,000 books were
missing.

“Psychology and sociology
material were the most horrendous
rip offs," O’Hare said. “Sixteen per
cent of the mising books were from
this (ategu‘y. Also, new books were

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overactive trees.

preferred more than obsolete, out-
ofdate ones."

Mire than half of the missing
books are irreplaceable, O’Hare
said. “it‘s not unusual for a foreign
ordomestic book to go out of print in
a couple years. Often material is
(rdered from professional societies
rather than regular trade
publishers, and becomes
unavailable in a short time.”

What can be replaced will cost
about $15,000, O'Hare said.

“Most books are taken close to
exam time and at the end of the
semester," said Ron Lloyd, reserve
room supervisor. “Sometimes books
are gone a few days and then later
reappear m the shelves.”

For the user's convenience, the
reserve room operates largely on an
open-shelf basis. Students help
themselves to books. “This privilege
is often abused and people walk
away without checking out the
book." Lloyd said.

No one has been caught in the act
yet, said Jeff Aauer, assistant to the
M. 1. King‘s department head of
circulatim. “If someone does try to
leave with an uncharged book we
just make him check it out or return
it."

O'Hare said, “We can't literally
search or frisk people as they leave.
No one in his right mind would place
books inhis brief case and expect to
get away with it. Most hide them in
their clothes or at their person.”

People are pretty professional in
abusing the books, Sauer said. Razor
blades and wet strings are used to
remove pages.

”We reorder miss‘ng pages if the
book is nd completely damag ,”
Sauer said. If it's a popular article
which has had to be reordered
severaltimes then it is placed in the
reserve room under more super-
vision.

Jadtie Adams, bindery super-
visor, said about $0,000 will be spent

in repairing books both from normal
wear and tear and from unnecessary
abuse. This figure also included
binding periodicals, seriab and
purchasing some new paperbacks.

Because of the rising cost of
replacing missing items, Jane
White, education library supervisor,
said they are copying material onto
microfilm and microfische, which
are lss likely to be stolen.

Some instructors are also taking
library books without first checking
them out. Some faculty members
take the books with them when they
leave the University on sabbatical or
for another job.

lnorder to combat the loss of
books, personal items are searched
upon leaving the library.

“Although the door checker does
the best job he can, it's impossible to
get all the offenders,“ Lloyd said.
“Many books may not even leave the
library. Sometimes students hide

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them where only they know where to
find them."

“it‘s really a selfish act for
someone to deprive others of a
particular joumal or book which he
needs for a Short time. There are
plenty of copying machines
available so there is really no sense
in taking the whole thing.“

At the education library the chief
targetof rip off artists is the juvenile
collection, which contains children‘s
literature. 0f the collection's total
9,0)0 volumes, 643 were missing last
year, White said.

A Tattle tape system is used at the
medical center library to control
theft. Each patron isissueda yellow,
plasticcard resembling a crdit card,
said Sharon Blackburn. cir-
culation head “When books are
checked out they are desensitized so
that they can pas through the book
detection gate. If someone tries to
pass with an uncharged library book

Society "tolerates, encourages’ rape

Mostly-female crowd hears Brownmiller

By BETSY PEARCE
Kernel Staff Writer

Rapists have been tolerated, even
encouraged by society, according to
Susan Brownmiller, who spoke last.
night at the Student Center Ball-
room.

Brownmiller, author of the best-
seller, Against 0ur Will: Men.
Women and Rape in Society, ad-
dressed an audience of more than
600 people, mostly women, on vari-
ous aspects of rape and its impact on
everyone’s lives. She reviewed the‘
topic from a historical perspective.

“There are no easy solutions (to
rape); the problem lies in popular
culture,” she said. For instance,
rape has been glamorized in movies
and magazines, resulting in mis-
leading stereotypes, she said.

Movie rape scenes are often
treated as sex scenes, Brownmiller
said. “The rapist is often the hero,
and the victim is usually beautiful
and ends up loving the rapist," she
said.

Results of a one-year study Brown-
miller conducted on the New York
Daily News showed that with one
exception (Tricia Nixon’s wedding)

women only made the front page
when they were victims of violent
crimes like rape and murder.

In a random survey she conducted
on various “confession" magazines,
Brownmiller said the women are
nearly always depicted as being at
least partly guilty where rape is
concerned.

,“Here, rape is shown as a positive
catalyst—as though it’s for the
woman’s best that it happened,"
Brownmiller said.

‘ Brownmiller said she feels porno-
graphy and prostitution should be
abolished.

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University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

an alarm soudrs and the gate locks,
preventing passage."

Only one disadvantage with the
system has been noted so far. Heavy
notebooks, or ones containing metal
strirs, can trip the alarm. “This is a
minor problem. though," Blackburn
said. “We can just tum the gate off
and let the person go through if it
happens."

M]. King is considering installing
a similar system . called Check-
point. said Associate Director Ruth
Brow . it would operate on radio
waves and can be used with the
present check out system.

()‘Hare estimated the detection
system could cost up to $50,000 for
just the main library. In addition,
there will be ongoing costs to treat
each book for detection. “It can‘t
eliminate the problem, but it would
be a good way to deal with it,"
()‘Hare said.

“I don’t feel pornography should
be a free speech issue since its
purpose is anti—female propagan-
da," she said. “It (pornography)
encourages violent acts against
women in the name of sexuality and
masculinity.“

“I really object to all classic
beaver shots,“ she said, adding that
she makes a distinction between the
erotic and pornographic.

Brownmiller said she objects to
prostitution because it turns sex into
a service. “It‘s a tremendous distor-
tion of what sex is all about,“ she
said.

Student’s trial results in hung jury

By DICK GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

A Fayette Quarterly Court jury
could reach no verdict yesterday
afternoon in the govemment’s case

against UK student Boyd Cofer.

The psychology junior is charged

with public intoxication in con-

nection with his December arrest by
Police Det. Phillip Vogel
In another suit, Cofer is charging

Vogel with assault in connection

—Steve Scholar

with the same arrest.

Because of the hung jury, Cofer’s
trial will be rescheduled within the
next three weeks.

The six-person jury was split 5-1 in
favrr of the prosecution before
finally emerging with its hung
verdict. “I think we’ve reached a
decision in good faith and nobody
wants to lie,” the jury foreman said.

During the four-hour trial,

Prosecutor Don Todd said on Dec. 4
in the early morning hours Cder and
a friend, Matt Dillon, were parked in
Dillon’s car behind the Hanover
Liqutr Store on the corner of Main
Street and Ashlarrd Avenue, a high-
crime are. Vogel testified he
parked his unmarked car and ap-
proached the two with a flashlight,
asking for identification.

Vogel said Dillon was pleasant
enough, but Cofer appeared to be
intoxicated and rudely tried to take
his driver’s license away from
Vogel.

A four-year department veteran,
Vogel said he told Cater to back off
at least three times. It was then, he
said, that Cofer made a menacing
gesture and came at him again.
Vogel told the court he pivoted and
pushed Cofer away with his
flashlight, striking Cofer in the
mouth.

Cofer was then arrested, charged
and taken to the Fayette County
Detention Center, Vogel said.

Todd called three other witnesses,
police officers George Omstead,
Chris Hinnerman and Mike Dod-
denddf.

Omstead was driving the back-up
unit called for by Vogel prior to the
incident. Hinnerman was the
transpating officer and Doddendoff
the jailer. All three testified Cofer
appeared to be intoxicated.

0n the witness stand, Cofer said he
asked for a sobriety test and was
refused his request by police. Police
are not required by law to conduct
such tests.

Defense attorney Timothy Wills
called on three witnesses before he
placed Cofer on the stand.

Matt Dillon, Arts and Sciences
junia', testified he and Cofer had

just dropped off witness David Dilly,
telecommunications senior, who
lived behind the liquor store, when
Vogel arrived. He said the officer
appeared friendly during the brief
interrogation before suddenly
becoming angry and striking Cofer.
Dillon testified Cofer was not in-
toxicated.

Cofer‘s roommate, Rick Ruhl,
BGS senior, then testified Cofer had
had one drink ata bar that afternoon
before going home to take a nap at
approximately 7:30 pm.

Ruhl said Cofer awakened at
around midnight and that the two of
them, along with Dillon and Dilly,
went to a restaurant, arriving
shortly before 1 cm.

Dillon, and Dilly all testified
Cofer lad had only one drink before
dinner. Vogel had testified he had

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Dr. C. Hernandez. director of preventive services

campus

Dr. Christian B. Anfinsen, a Nobel prizewinner,
will speak at a UK symposium on chemistry and
molecular biology April 1. Anfinsen was the m2
Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is now associated
with the National Institute of Health.

state

Gov. Julian Carroll said yesterday he would not
sign a new contract obligating state tooth in the
corrstruction of the Paint Creek Dam and reservoir
project if the state‘s current contract is found
urcorltitutional. Carroll‘s pledge came a day after
President Carter announced he was reinstating

in the Department of Human Resources, said
yesterday his division believes marijuana should be
decriminalized in Kentucky. Hernandez added
there is no decision at this time on whether to seek
such legislation in rm.

New directions-and higher tuitlom—for the
state‘s colleges and universities will be unveiled
next week at a special meeting of the state Council
on Public Higher Education.

A methane gas explosion that killed ll men in a
[Ada County coal mine a year ago this month
apparently occurred when rocks fell from the roof
ontoapieceofmineequipment, generatingasparh
that triggered the blast, H. N. Kirkpatrick,
commissioner of the Kentucky Department of
Mines and Minerals, said yesterday.

nation

The National Federation of Priests‘ Councils
adopted a resolution in Louisville yesterday urging
the Vatican and Pope Paul VI to “review" the
Roman Catholic policy barring women from the
priesthood. By voice vote, about 70 per cent of the
priests from 45 states indicated their approval for
the resolution, according to the Rev. James
Ratigan, president of the Councils.

Declaring that the American people should be
toldwhatlsgoingonlnforeignpolicy, President
Carter yesterday outlined an agenda for negotia-
tion in Moscow and said it will include an effort to
eliminate nuclear testing of all kinds. Carter also
saidtlratSecretaryofStateCyr-usit. Vancewill be
m Soviet leaders to join the United States in
effu‘tstoendoutsideinterferenceinAfrica, lestit
lead to conflict there.

world

India's new prime minister, 81~year-old Morarji
Desai, took office yesterday and promptly an-
nounceda major foreign policy shift away from the
country‘s traditional special relations with the
Soviet Union. “We won’t have any special relations
with any country," Desai said in a press conference
minutes after he was sworn into office.

warm welcome

Today, will be sunny and a little warmer with a
high near 00. Partly cloudy and not as cold tonight,
low in the mid m's. Partly sunny tomorrow with a
slight chance of a shower by late afternoon. The
high tomorrow will be in the mid 00’s.

Compiled from Associated Press

 

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Last week 5 proposal by the Carter admini-
stration to decriminalize marijuana is an
encouraging sign for the future. Unfortunately,
the proposed legislation would have little effect
on most marijuana users.

According to Dr. Peter Bourne, Carter‘s
directordesignate of the Office of Drug Abuse
Policy, fewer than 1 per cent of the 400,000
marijuana busts in 1975 were made by Federal
agents.

Since most of the marijuana arrests are
prosecuted under state laws, the proposed
federal legislation would be little more than a
symbolic measure.

Nonetheless, decriminalization on the federal
level is a necessary first step and would provide
a model for states that wish to change their own
policies on pot.

Currently. under federal law, a first-time
offender caught with less than one ounce of pot is
subject to one year in jail and a $5.000 fine. Under
the proposed legislation. possession of small
amounts —less than one ounce—of pot would be a
civil infraction, subject only to a fine similar to a
traffic citation.

As Bourne pointed out in his testimony before
the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse
and Control. when otherwise law-abiding young
people go to prison it "causes far greater harm
to their lives than any effect the drug would have
had.“

Already, eight states (Alaska, Maine, Colo-
rado. California, Ohio, South Dakota and
Minnesota) have agreed with this position and
have decriminalized marijuana possession.
According to Time Magazine 33 others are
currently considering similar action.

But there are still states like Nevada where pot
smoking ranks with third-degree homicide. A
person who crosses the state line between

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decriminalized California into Nevada with less ,

than an ounce of pot is subject to a six-year
prison term and a $2,000 fine.

This is clearly cruel and unusual punishment ..

for possession of a drug that probably causes less
long-term damage than legal alcohol, which is
involved in almost half of all traffic related
deaths.

Although scientist are in great disagreement
about the effects of pot, few give credence to the
“Reefer Madness” scare tactics used by
opponents of decriminalization. According to
most researchers, pot is not addictive nor can
any serious long-term effects be attributed to
smoking marijuana.

Studies in Oregon and California also dispute
the argument, frequently used by decriminali-
zation opponents, that decriminalization leads to
greater marijuana use. According to the studies,
lighter penalties for possession do not appear to
produce a significant increase in the number of
new marijuana smokers.

Despite all the arguments against decriminal-
ization, conservative organizations such as the
American Bar Association, the National council
of Churches and the American Medical Associa-
tion have endorsed the idea.

Whether decriminalization is approved, how-
ever, it will probably have little effect on the
increasing popularity of pot. The National
Institute on Drug Abuse estimate that 36 million
Americans have tried marijuana at least once
and 15 million smoke it on a regular basis.

In light of the popularity of the drug and the
lack of evidence indicating damage from
marijuana use, it makes sense to reduce the
insanely harsh federal penalties for possession.

Even if the legislation only effects] per cent of
marijuana arrests, it is at least a step in the right
direction.

Library plagued by thieves

:: Franklin scented to have a
pretty good idea in the beginning.
"\\ll.tl we need." he said. “is a
.~mi:c library. That way everybody
. «u. have the use of a great number
‘ looks instead of a few people
tlsitu' only what they can afford to
t .t‘
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taiuht lit-t'tl, w) hating the library

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around helps us all. All of us except
the person who needs the materials
some turkey has cut out of the
magazine

Today Is column was to have been
about consumer credit. But while I
was doing my research for it. I came
across tor. I should say. I didn‘t
come acrosst a number of articles
which have been stolen trotn the
magazines.

Perhaps I'm being too quick when
I say the articles Were “stolen."
Perhaps they were just “borrowed"
by someone who couldn't make them
fit into the Xerox machine without
cutting them out of the binding. And.
mce reinserted. perhaps they just
blew away for lack of common
binding.

Or maybe some poor soul who
cared so much about the copyright
laws that he refused to put the
article on that Xerox machine. but
being basically a seeker of truth and
knowledge. felt compelled to avail
himself or herself of the only copy of
that article in existence.

Whatever the reason, though,
somebody else has those articles I
wanted to look at. Anyone who has

ever done a term paper can testify to
the lack of materials. particularly in
“hot“ topic areas.

According to Ed O'Hara. Collect-
ion Development librarian at M.I.
King library, a great deal of
mutilation takes place where a lot of

people are doing term papers on the

subject.

“This happens in certain subject
areas more than others." he said.

, “Psychology is a very mutilated
. area. Abortion. the Loch Ness

Monster. the Bermuda Triangle,
child abuse, You name it. and if
there‘s a lot of interest in it, you‘ll
find people ripping out the articles."

By the way, if you want to read an
article on “Roots“ you might as well
forget it.

But even where the materials
have been vandalized, there may be
a chance of getting to use them.
Frances Williams, supervisor of
Periodicals and Central Serials Re-
cords, suggested some alternatives.

“When the perioutcal IS missmg,
first we‘ll look to see if it's on film.
We now carry a number of maga-
zines both in bound and microfilm.
which is located in the newspaper
microtext room.

“If it isn't on film. though. we try
to locate it elsewhere. We'll look to
other libraries, or even the city
library to try and find it.

“If these alternatives fail. then we
have to try to replace it. either on
film or hard copy. I prefer now to get
film because it‘s more safe and we
know it‘s there when somebody
wantsit.“

Williams said a number of maga-
zines are kept behind the periodicals
(hsk and require leaving one‘s ID.
to even look at them.

“Consumer Reports and Psy-
chology Today,“ she said, “are used
constantly. They wouldn‘t last two
minutes if they weren‘t restricted."

But even with those magazines
which can be used only in the

restricted area, some mutilation will
take place. To replace those often
means going to the publisher or an
out of print journal specialist, and in
any case, the result is a whole lot of
time and money wasted because of
the all-important term paper that
mutilator was working on.

“Sometimes, we’re able to get
another library to Xerox copies
where a few pages have been ripped

t ‘ O‘Hara said. “But many of
those libraries will charge 15-20
cents to cover their overhead. Even
that is time-consuming, though.
First you have to find a library that
has the journal and then find one will
ing to Xerox. And with the new
copyright laws, we may not even be
able to do that much longer. “

The only way the library can find
wt about missing publications is for
someone to tell them about it. It's
good to report to the circulation desk
or the reference desk whether you
need the article very badly or just
think it‘d be helpful.

If you absolutely need it, two
things are possible. The library.
through its search procedures may
locate a copy. If they have to order
one, though, you're probably out of
luck for the average term paper
tassuming most people are like me
and wait till the day before it's due to
write the thing.)

And even if you don't absolutely
need the article, maybe the next guy
to come along will have it a little
easier because of your effort.

By the way, one magazine I saw
l'ad been mutilated and the article
officially replaced with a Xerox
copy. The title of the article: ”Crime
wave: What can be done about it?"

 

Bruce W. Singleton h o second year
law student. Consumer Focus ap-

years every Frfloy. If you have a

suggestion for o future cob-in.
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We’re losing the best natural resource

By JIM I):\I.I‘I \‘lt'Klili Y

New York Times New: Service

“'Al'lil’N Minus! am develop-
ing a serious paranoia about water.
a paranoia that lies, latent. in every
water and coffee consumer in the
world.

“Water?" you may ask, and hit
the tap right on the head.

I‘m becoming afraid to drink it,
and to eat fish from it. To try and
escape the problem is as fruitless as

 

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trying to bite one s own teeth, or to
look at one' s own face without a
mirror. Let me explain.

A 1975 Environmental Protection
Agency survey of drinkingswater
supplies in 80 United States cities
found that small quantities of or-
ganic chemicals were present in
public water-supply systems
throughout the country. Some of
these chemicals were suspected of
causing cancer if consumed in large
amounts or stored over a long period
of time.

It was also reported that the
widespread use of high-nitrate ferti-
lizers and extensive feedlot opera-
tions have resulted in an increased
contamination of both surface and
ground waters by nitrates.

Consequently, the nitrate content
if much of our ground water now
exceeds the drinking-water stand-
ard. It’s not a matter to guffaw
about. Infants can build up a
concentration of nitrates that can
cause lethal blood disease.

Then there are sewage dis-
charges, sodium. and the fact that

most public water-supply systems,
as of 1970, were deficient.

Personally, I've drunk brown
water from a stream that flowed
down Washington‘s Olympic Moun-
tains into the Pacific Ocean. Its
color was not from pollutants but
from the many dead alder trees that
lay in the waterway. I’ve also drunk
water that tasted like the sWimming-
pool water of my boyhood.

As I write, I’m sipping coffee
made from lake water, scooped
from a hole in the ice. Then there's a
good old rusty water, which can -
muse cardiovascular disease. And,
probably like everyone else, I have
felt strange sicknesses for which
explanations like “flu” and “cold"
never seemed accurate.

When visiting a city in northwest-
ern Minnesota some months ago, I
was told by a friend of his concern
over the local river’s depth.

“It’s two and a half feet deep, on
the average!" he said. “By Decem-
ber, the river will be frozen solid!
We won‘t have any drinking water;
the factories will be forced to shut
down: and there won’t be water to
tight fires with!"

His voiced concern could have
come from anyone suddenly realiz-
ing the value of what is usually taken
for granted.

I remember a four-day canoe tri
(bwn the Red Lake River last
spring—the same river my friend
was worried about. I saw dead cows
and a horse floating in the river and
lying swollen and black on the shore.

.They were flood victims. I also

watched a farmer dump a rusty
pickup from a cliff into the river.
Purification plants supposedly were
cleaning the water downstream.

 

Thanks Doc

1 take this opportunity to com-
mend Dr. James Anderson on his
excellent research for the diabetic
diet. His work has undoubtedly
(pened the door for future innovat~
ions in overcoming one of America‘s
most common maladies.

As a diabetic I have had to deal
daily with an American diet that is
perhaps a sincere cause for dia-
betes, pre-diabetcs and sugar meta-
bolic disorders: hypoglycemia,
hyperinsulin, etc.

These physiological imbalances
are clearly and insightfully dis-
cussed in an excellent paperback by
William Dufty called Sugar fillies.

I strongly urge all diabetics, in
particular, to read Sugar Blues. If
you know a diabetic, love a diabetic
(r are concerned with wisely con-
trolling your sugar metabolism, get
a copy of this book and lighten up.
You‘re mind (not to mention your
body and pancreas) will be defini-
tely benefitted.

As long as food manufacturers are
allowed to add unnecessary, non
mtritive and lethal sugar in every-

The situation has the character of
Catch-22. We pay for purification
plants with our taxes, but we
indirectly boost our tax expendi-
tures by polluting what is costly to
clean. And if the plants don't clean
the water. then our bodies will pay
further taxes.

Heading about water quality
doesn’t help my paranoia. A recent
issue of Oceans magazine had a
frightening feature on PCB’s t poly.
chlorinated biphenylst in ocean,
lake and river water. The PCB‘s
poison the aquatic food chain, which
we inevitably harvest and consume.

In stored amounts, PCB‘s cause
skin disease, reproductive failures,
neurological disorders and still-
births. Last year, because of PCB
concentrations, New York State
closed the Hudson to all commerical
fishing except sturgeon, shad, gold
fish and baitfish. The closure was
not the nation’s first, nor will it be
thelast.

Another report described the dan-
gerous levels of plutonium, and
other nuclear energy effluents, in

our ocean water. Scientists are

finding fish with crooked spines.

The magnitude of our water
situation continued to inundate me
as I canoed tonight in an orange
sunset. I daydreamed of a genera-
tion that might clean our waters: 3
generation whose concerns had gone
beyond food to include water, a
generation that would not be limited
by age, but by degree of concern.
Therapy for my paranoia had begun.

 

Jim Dale Vickery is a writer-
Inckpackcr-photographer.

 

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thing from Cheerios to ketchup, even

in our common table salt, then we

will suffer from the “sugar blues."
Until folks wake up and realize the

. addiction to sugar we all share and

then attempt to eat sugar- -,free this
sugar addition to most of our foods
will continue.

So the next time you reach for that
old favorite cold pop. moon pie,
double bubble regime, consider your
pancreas and it‘s natural and unnat-
iu-al ability to handle sugar.

Eat well...live long.

ltoy llohen
M18 junior

Poor edlting

I'm writing in response to the
mfortunate accusation made in
Wednesday‘s Kernel attaching res-
ponsibility for the alleged Dharma
poster disappearences to the Mor-
anatha Student Organization

A: co-director of the group I
fondle advertisement and literature
tistribution which includes the post
ingofflyers, schedules, etc. It is not
now nor do I anticipate at any time
in the future our policy to remove
onypooter.

We recently completed a twoweek
outreach to the UK community
which included extensive advertis-
ing. I consistently found Maranatha
posters defaced or removed alto
gether.

I can sympathize with the Dharma
group's loss but find such an
mwarranted attack regrettable par-
ticularly in light of the assurance I
personally gave that our people
would not be involved in any such
activities.

Michael (‘aulk
Maranatha Student Organization

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Education, was incorrectly identi-
fied as the senator who voted in
mpport of the University Senate's
new counc withdrawal procedure.

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at the time of the meeting. Pete
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Cofer’s trial rescheduled;
jury can't reach verdict

' Continued from page I

seen beer cans in the car, so
Todd asked each if Cofer had
been drinking in the car prior
to, or after, dimer. Each
replied Cofer had not.

When Cofer described the
incidents leading to the
arrest, he account differed
greatly with Vogel’s.

Vogel testified he
questimed Cofer about his
home address. “He said, ‘It’s
on the license,’ ” Vogel said,
indicating that was the first
time Cofer moved, toward
him. Vogel said he told Cofer
to go back and stand by
Dillon, who was near the car.

Vogel said the same thing
happened two or three times,
each time Cofer moving
toward Vogel and each time
Vogel asking him to stand
back. Vogel said Cofer raised
his hands in a menacing
gesture, which is when, Vogel
said, he pivoted quickly and
pushed Cofer away with the
flashlight.

However, Cofer testified

that it was Vogel wno an—
nounced there was no home
address on the license. Cofer
stated that he tried to look at
the licerse, but when he
reached for it, Vogel wouldn’t
let go. At that time, Cofer
said, Vogel‘s mood changed.

“He said, ‘Back off.’ "
Cofer told the court. “I
though he was kidding and I
said, ‘Huh?’ He said ‘Back
off!’ and I raised my hands
andtold him I didn’t want any
trouble. As soon as I lowered
my hands, he hit me.

At that point, Vogel said, he
told Cofer he was placing him
under arrest, a point Cofer
disputed. Vogel also reported
Cofer asked for his name,
badge number and the
charges, and Vogel said he
complied. Cofer testified
Vogel offered no answer.

In closing remarks, the
defense argued that the only
reason Cofer was arrested
was because the police officer
“needed some justification

for the force that was being
used.“

Wills pointed to the
prosecution testimony that
Cofer was glassy-eyed,
staggering and slurring his
speech. “I'd be glassyeyed
and slurring my speech too, if
I had been hit in the mouth
with a flashlight.” the
defense argued.

Prosecutor Todd reminded
the jurtrs of the beer found in
the car and told them that
“Your responsibility is to look
at the law and determine
whether or not this man is
guilty. You are not trying the
police force. You are not
trying Officer Vogel."

The jury deliberated for
almost an hour before sen~
ding a note to Judge David
Porter, who then called for an
official verdict and declared
a mistrial.

Cofer's law suit, which will
ask for over $117,000 in
dmages, is scheduled for next
December.

Newberry, Welch enter
SG spring campaign

Jim Newberry, Student
Government (86) senator at
large, recently announced his
candidacy for SG president in
the spring elections.

He also named Cathy Welch
his vice presidential running
mate. “I didn’t choose a
woman as a woman," he said.
“I looked for someone with
whom I could share the office
and whom I could get along
with personally.” Newberry
a